Paper-bag holder



N A L Dm G M B W (No Model.)

PAPER BAG HOLDER.

No. 426,194. Patented Apr. 22, 1890.

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ATENT OFFICE.

OF URICII, MISSOURI.

PAPER-BAG HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 426,194, dated April 22, 1890.

Application filed November 26, 1889 Serial No.331,624. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known I, W ALTER B. MORLAN, a citi zen of the United States, residing at Urich, in the county of Henry and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Paper-Bag Holder, of whichthe following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a suitable stand and holder for paper bags of varying sizes for use in stores, and to so.construct the same as to permit of the withdrawal of but one bag at a time, and this with the use of but one hand of the operator or salesman.

Vith these general. objects in View the invention consists in certain features of construct-ion hereinafter specified, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a perspective of a stand constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same 5 Fig. 3, a transverse vertical section. Fig. 4: is a detail in perspective of one of the shelves.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

The stand is rectangular in cross-section, and comprises opposite side walls 1, converging toward their upper ends and having their front edges also converging in the same direction, a vertical rear wall 2, a cap 3, and a bottom 4. The side walls 1 upon their inner faces are oppositely and transversely grooved, as at 5, the grooves preferably slightly declining toward the rear wall 2, and in each pair of grooves there is mounted a shelf 6, the front corners of which are slightly cut away, leaving opposite guideedges 7, adapted to take into the grooves, and the front edge of each shelf is provided with a semi-circu lar recess 8 at its center, the remaining portion of the front edge being preferably beaded to lend stiffening to the shelf, which I prefer to form of sheet metal. The series of shelves as they approach the top of the stand of course decrease in size to correspond with the slanting sides of the stand, so that compartments 9 of varying sizes are also provided to accommodate the standard sizes of the bags.

10 represent metal strips, which, by secur ing devices 11, are fastened securely to the front edges of the side walls 1. The strips 10 agree in width with the thickness of the side walls at those points of the latter at which the grooves 5 are formed, and intermediate those points which are opposite the compartments said strips are formed with inwardlytending check-plates 12. The check-plates have their lower edges occurring a very slight distance above the upper surface of an adjacent shelf-in fact, a distance merely sulficient to permit of the easy withdrawal of a paper bag through the space and the upper edges of the clip-plates occur some distance from the lower surface of the upper adjacent surface of the shelf, whereby a considerable number of bags may be introduced into their proper compartment at one time.

By reason of the strips 10 it will also be apparent that the shelves are prevented from withdrawal in any attempt to withdraw a bag, also that by reason of the inclination or slant given the front edges of the sides 1 each successive compartment as you approach the bottom of the stand has its front edge slightly in front of the compartment above, so that a ready access is obtainable from each to each compartment, regardless of its location near the top or bottom of the stand.

To withdraw a bag, it is simply necessary for the salesman to insert his thumb or finger into the recess 8 under the lower one of the stack of bags, when the bag may be read ily slid from under its superimposed companions, and any liability of more than one bag being withdrawn at a time by reason of an accidental sticking of the same is obviated by the check-plates.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- 1. A stand for paper bags, rectangular in cross-section and comprising opposite side and rear walls, and a series of shelves mounted between the side walls and having their front edges recessed for a portion of their length and their remaining portion beaded, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the opposite sides of the standard and aseries of shelves mounted therein, of check-plates secured to the edges of the sides and inwardly disposed and having their lower edges occurring slightly above the front edges of the shelves, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, with the opposite sides and the shelves mounted between the same, of the check-plates secured to the frontedges of the sides and inwardly tending, and having their lower edges at substantially the width of a single bag above the shelf and their upper edges a considerable distance below the upper succeeding shelf, substantially as specified.

4. The combination, with the opposite sides converging toward their upper ends and provided with rear and top walls and with a series of opposite grooves, of a series of shelves mounted in the grooves, recessed at the central front edge and headed at each side of their recesses, and the metal strips 10, covering the recesses and provided intermediate the shelves with inwardlytending checkplates, the lower edges of which occur slightly above the shelves, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' \VALTER B. MORLAN.

Witnesses:

A. M. PAGE, J. L. WRIGHT. 

